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	Women Travel - Rough Guide Rough Guide's celebrated globetrotting anthology is back with 100 completely new essays in which adventurous women describe their travels, the accompanying trials and triumphs, and the unique geographical and personal journeys they undertake. This fourth edition brings a new collection of tales, complete with practicalities for travelling in these regions and resources for women on the road. Publisher: Rough Guides ISBN: 1858284597 Published: 1999 Paperback: 688 pages Price: £12.99


	Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft's work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage, yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism. Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0141441259 Published: 2004 Paperback: 352 pages Price: £7.99


	Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of penetrating imaginative power. The Second Sex stands as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time. Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 009974421X Published: 1997 Paperback: 768 pages Price: £9.99


	Germaine Greer - The Whole Woman Reviving the debate she launched with The Female Eunuch, in thirty-five self-contained 'chapterkins' of fiery rhetoric, authoritative insight, outrageous humour and broad-ranging enquiry, Germaine Greer once again sets the agenda for the future of feminism, arguing that in spite of a widespread feeling of complacency, the woman question is far from answered. 'Into the pale politeness of post-feminism, Greer has thrown a polemical bomb...Greer's acid anger comes as a surprising reminder of what the point of a feminist book was meant to be. It is funny, unforgiving, unapologetic, unappeasing' - The Guardian, UK Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 1862300577 Published: 2000 Paperback: 464 pages Price: £7.99


	Aung San Suu Kyi - Letters from Burma For the last decade of Burma's traumatic history, Aung San Suu Kyi - winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize - has been the inspirational leader of attempts to restore democracy to her country. In these fifty-two pieces, originally written for a Japanese newspaper and begun soon after her release from house arrest, she paints a vivid, poignant yet fundamentally optimistic picture of her native land. She evokes the country's seasons and scenery, customs and festivities, and describes an inspirational pilgrimage to the Buddhist abbot of Thamanya. She celebrates the courageous army officers, academics and actors who have supported the National League for Democracy, often at great personal risk, and she sets out a comprehensive programme for economic reform. A passionate advocate of better health care and education, and the need for ethical foreign investment in Burma's future, Aung San Suu Kyi reveals an acute insight into the impact of political decisions on ordinary people's lives. She examines the terrible traumas inflicted on children of imprisoned dissidents - children allowed to see their parents for fifteen minutes every fortnight - the effect of inflation on the national diet and of state repression on traditions of hospitality. One woman's vision, humanity and commitment to political and ethnic harmony won her party an overwhelming victory in the elections of May 1990; every facet of her personality is powerfully displayed here. These letters were awarded the prestigious Japanese Newspaper Association's Award for 1996. They are illustrated with pencil drawings by the Burmese artist Heinn Htet. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140264035 Published: 1997 Paperback: 224 pages Price: £8.99


	Aung San Suu Kyi - Freedom from Fear Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. In 1995 she was freed from six years' house arrest in Rangoon, where she was held as a prisoner of conscience, despite an overwhelming victory by her party in May 1990. This collection of writings reflects Aung San Suu Kyi's greatest hopes and fears for her people and her concern about the need for international cooperation, and gives poignant and humorous reminiscences as well as independent assessments of her role in politics. Containing speeches, letters and interviews, these writings give a voice to Burma's 'woman of destiny', who was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Includes a foreword by Vaclav Havel Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140253173 Published: 1995 Paperback: 416 pages Price: £9.99


	Buchi Emecheta - Joys of Motherhood Voted one of Africa's 100 best books of the past century. Nnu Ego is devoted to her children, giving them all her energy, all her worldly possessions, indeed, all her life - with the result that she finds herself friendless and alone in middle age. A powerful commentary on polygamy, patriarchy and women's changing roles in urban Nigeria. Publisher: Heinemann ISBN: 043590972X Published: 1994 Paperback Price: £7.40


	Buchi Emecheta - Second Class Citizen Adah moves to England to live with her Nigerian student husband. She soon discovers that life for a young Nigerian woman living in London in the 1960s is grim. Rejected by British society and thwarted by her husband, who expects her to be subservient to him, she is forced to face up to life as a second-class citizen. Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos. Publisher: Heinemann ISBN: 0435909916 Published: 1994 Paperback Price: £7.50


	Nuruddin Farah - From a Crooked Rib Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somali when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are 'sold like cattle'. Written with complete conviction from a woman's viewpoint, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacked the traditional values of his people, yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. 'One of the finest contemporary African novelists' - Salman Rushdie Nuruddin Farah is the winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0141187174 Published: 2003 Paperback: 192 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £7.99


	Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 1929. She moved to Holland with her family when the Nazis became powerful in Germany. During the Second World War the Nazis occupied Holland and created a police state. The Nazis believed that some races, such as Jews and gypsies, did not deserve the right to live and they started to arrest, transport and kill them. Anne and her family were Jews and were afraid for their lives and so they went into hiding. The family hid in the Secret Annexe at the back of a warehouse from July 1942 until August 1944 when they were discovered by the Nazis. During the terrible time in hiding and constantly in fear of discovery, Anne was growing from a young girl into a woman and she recorded her thoughts and experiences in a diary. The occupants of the Secret Annexe were betrayed just before the War ended, and were taken off to concentration camps. Anne died of typhus in 1945, just a few months before her sixteenth birthday. Her diary was found after the War and was later published by her father, the only surviving member of the family. It has become a bestseller throughout the world and is an extraordinary piece of writing from such a young girl. It reminds us of the horror of prejudice and persecution as well as telling one girl's remarkable story. One can't help but wonder what sort of writing Anne might have produced if she had survived the horrors of World War II. Publisher: Puffin ISBN: 0141315180 Published: 2002 Paperback: 352 pages Price: £6.99


	Toni Morrison - Beloved It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death; Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, who died at her mother's hands, will now return to claim retribution. Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She also received the Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and is Robert F Goheen Professor at Princeton University. Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099760118 Published: 1997 Paperback: 352 pages, 197 x 128 mm Price: £7.99


	Wislawa Szymborksa - Poems, New and Collected When Wislawa Szymborksa's View with a Grain of Sand was published shortly after its author's award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, the Polish poet, hitherto all but unknown outside her own country, became an international name. More than 10,000 copies of the book have been sold in Britain alone. Yet it was not so much the fame of the prize, as the directness, vigour, wit and honesty with which Szymborska herself writes - qualities deftly captured by her translators - that brought this about. Transcending national and generational boundaries with her rare combination of moral wisdom and down-to-earth manner of speaking to us, she is unquestionably one of the great poetic spirits of the age. Poems New and Collected adds sixty-four new translations to the text of View with a Grain of Sand. Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: 0571196683 Published: 1999 Paperback: 304 pages Price: £14.99


	Loung Ung - First They Killed My Father From a childhood survivor of Cambodia's brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of war crimes and desperate actions. The true story of the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family - and their triumph of spirit. Publisher: Mainstream Publishing ISBN: 1840185198 Published: 2001 Paperback: 224 pages Price: £7.99

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